Feb 9, 2023
Welcome back to Higher Density Living! For this episode, we discuss one of the most infamous, and well-regarded military conspiracies during World War 2, the German “Operation Paperclip”. This was an instrumental military operation to unite the Rhineland for Hitler’s Nazi Germany.
This will be a running segment in the show as Alexander and Jason tackle the subject of history, the side of the story which has never been in the limelight of historical narratives. We revisit the adage of power, particularly the power of politics, getting hold of the noble use and function of technology for the benefit and development of human life. To keep order and justice under the hierarchy of power, Operation paperclip symbolizes the instrumentality of technology against its moral use. How could we have handled a just and fair account of advancing science by dealing with a devil’s advocate?
The scientists redeem themselves by serving and collaborating with the United States. As a path for redemption, these German scientists created mass technologies that help recover, shape, and form mankind into an advanced material society, in stark contrast to their tenure as designers of death and destruction under Nazi Germany. Although he officially sanctioned the operation, the United States under former President Truman’s administration forbade the Department of Defense from recruiting any Nazi members or active Nazi supporters. Nevertheless, officials within the Office of Strategic Services (OSS)—the forerunner to the CIA—bypassed this directive by eliminating or whitewashing incriminating evidence of possible war crimes from the scientists’ records, believing their intelligence to be crucial to the country’s postwar efforts. This effectively pardoned and salvaged all essential, useful German scientists to be absorbed and serve under the American military-industrial complex. This theme is the exact premise and inspiration of the cult classic film, Dr. Strangelove.
Instead, despite the smear and one-sided judgment of recorded history, Alexander and Jason encourage us to have a holistic analogy, be open-minded and see the whole picture of Operation Paperclip. They encourage us to look at perspectives from all sides and see the positives and the negatives of technology under the umbrella of human intent, use, and purpose. In the end, there are no sides. It is all but a cycle of cause and effect that is universal in nature.
As always, Higher Density Living reserves no dogma because only the truth prevails in the universe. History is judged by enlightened communities, and the Higher Density Living podcast is committed to the same cause. You are the center of the universe. Let us join Alexander and Jason as they talk about Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. www.higherdensityliving.com